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For the collectors who just can’t get enough One Piece Film Z merchandise, Bandai has got something unexpected coming your way next week: pre-orders for two more Figuarts Zero One Piece Z figures! We hadn’t heard anything about there being more figures in the One Piece Film Z Figuarts Zero line in a couple months, so I assumed Bandai was at their limit. But instead, pre-orders open next week for the next two web-exclusive entries in the Figuarts Zero One Piece Film Z figures: timeskip Aokiji and an 8 Year Old version of Nami!

Just in case Banpresto wasn’t capturing enough of One Piece collectors’ money with their One Piece WCF figures, DX Grandline Men figures, Grandline Children figures, Grandline Lady figures, and Grandline Ship collections, they’ve decided to launch another all-new sub-line this year: the Grandline Vehicle collection! And what better way to begin the line than with everyone’s favorite cash-cow raccoon-dog, Tony Tony Chopper, driving the Brachio Tank V!

It’s been a while since I spent some time giving a MegaHouse One Piece Portrait of Pirates figure the in-depth review treatment that it deserved, so I decided to take some time today and write a lengthy review of one of the biggest releases of the past year: the One Piece POP Roronoa Zoro Sailing Again figure! But while he’s my pick for the best New World Zoro figure from any toy company, Sailing Again P.O.P. Zoro is certainly not without his share of problems…

It’s been a quiet month of February for most One Piece figure releases, but Bandai has finally come through with some feminine hotness to celebrate the month of Valentine’s Day: it’s the only female in the eleven Supernovas and a real fan-favorite: Captain Jewelry Bonney!

After an abnormally long and agonizing wait, the Banpresto One Piece Grandline Men Vol. 16 figures were announced last week, and among them is one of the most-wanted timeskip characters: Vice-Admiral Smoker of the Marines!

Last month we broke the news that the June 2013 Figuarts Zero One Piece figures would be Hody Jones and a Monkey D. Luffy Battle Ver. figure, and now we finally have the long-awaited photos of the duo of Bandai figures! As I guessed, the Luffy Battle Version figure will be captured performing one of Luffy’s most memorable and spectacular attacks–the Gum-Gum Red Hawk!

It seems like just yesterday that One Piece Z WCF Vol. 1 came out, but it was actually “way” back in December! Two more months brought two more sets, and the third of the four series of Banpresto WCF figures for One Piece Film Z has now been released overseas: One Piece WCF Film Z Vol. 3! But while the character selection can’t be faulted, the quality control on this set leaves a lot to be desired…

Banpresto has been a little bit quiet so far in 2013, but they pulled out all the stops and brought a plethora of One Piece Grandline Series figures to the Japan Amusement Expo 2013 to get this year back on track! Among the new offerings that they brought to the show were the next two additions to the Grandline Children branch of the One Piece Grandline Men series: Princess Shirahoshi and Jewelry Bonney!

It’s been a few months since MegaHouse debuted the sculpt for the all-new and improved One Piece POP Neo DX Red-Haired Shanks coming out in 2013, but at this weekend’s Winter WonderFest 2013 we got our first glimpse at the fully-painted Portrait of Pirates Shanks figure prototype!

If there’s one character I see collectors crying out for on a nearly daily basis in the MegaHouse One Piece Portrait of Pirates line, it’s Buggy the Clown! But while those pleas for a POP Buggy the Clown figure have gone totally unheard thus far, Bandai has Buggy fans covered! One Piece Figuarts Zero Buggy the Clown was among the first figures released in that Bandai line, and he still stands today as one of the greatest figures Bandai has released…